‘Electric Vehicles to cost same as petrol vehicles in 2 years’: Nitin Gadkari

Prices of all Electric Vehicles (EVs) will be the same cost as of petrol vehicles in the country within two years, Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday. “I will assure all the honourable members that within two years the cost of electric two-wheelers, electric three-wheelers and electric four-wheelers will be equivalent to the cost of petrol vehicles and the country will change,” he said.

Requesting Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla to provide space for a charging station in the Parliament premises, Gadkari said that MPs can buy EVs once a charging station is installed. “In every government premises, we expect to give the facility of electric charging in the parking system,” he added.

According to the union transport minister, the Ministry of Power has issued charging infrastructure for electric vehicles.